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What to do with my 1946 crosley?
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Raymond
Hello
I recently bought a 1946 crosley (cc46-2350) that 's in rough shape. It came with an engine in the car and 2 extra engines that are slightly different. One appears to be part of a generator and the other I'm not sure about but it has a hand crank and chain. My intent was to have some fun with the engines but I am wondering if the car can be restored. It has rust holes through the floor and the rocker panels are completely destroyed. Does anyone make replacement rocker panels for these cars? Is there a list of parts suppliers? It's missing a multitude of parts and all the wiring is destroyed. Any info you guys can give me about this car will help me decide if I should try restoring it. Also, How do I know if the engine in the car is the original? Ray
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crosleyshortsport
Ray, Go to the crosleyautoclub.com website and you will find all of our fine suppliers. I do know that Ted from Yankee Crosley Parts makes the new rocker panels. Here is his number.
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Spock Arnold
Raymond I have seen some pretty rough cars restored. I guess it depends on your desire to restore one. Floors and rockers are available through our vendors as are wiring harnesses although you can wire one yourself. Vendor contacts are on the club web page . I would make one other suggestion and that is to join the Crosley auto club, come to the national meet and bring the car. You won't regret it. Dave Anspach
On Apr 2, 2020 9:32 AM, "Raymond via groups.io" <raymondjbz@...> wrote: Hello
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Kenn Cahill
Bad floors and bad rocker panels are ubiquitous with Crosley’s.
Both patch panels and complete floors are available from a couple of sources. So are rocker panels. So are wiring harnesses One advantage you have if you want to restore this 1946 sedan is that this model was very basic, so there is not a whole lot in the way of accessories that need to be located. Joining the Crosley Automobile Club will be extremelybhelpful. All of the vendors are listed on the website. Many of us are willing to share our knowledge(or lack thereof!) Welcome!
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Here is the link to our vendors http://crosleyautoclub.com/PartsSuppliers.html it is at the bottom of every Crosley-Gang message that goes out along with a couple of other useful links.
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Your sedan looks very savable, if you're not up to the task I'm sure you can finds someone that is and you could look for something less challenging. Any Crosley from the salt belt will be missing the floors and possibly the rockers, as several have said, those items can be bought or fabricated. The engine with the chain appears to be a military generator engine. Someone apparently added the chain, the mag is normally driven with a cogged belt that is available from Service Motors. Service & Yankee Crosley both have reprints of the Service Manual, you should order one if your planning on tearing into the engines. I think the other engine is a ThermoKing unit used on refrigeration trucks. The engine serial number is to the rear of the distributor on the side of the crankcase, that will let us roughly date the engine. Your car would have originally had a CoBra sheet metal block engine, but most of these were updated to cast iron blocks when they became available in 1949. The CoBra block tended to corrode/rust and leak if they were not carefully taken care of. Your installed engine has a cast iron block but may be on an early or original crankcase. http://crosleyautoclub.com/EngineTree/Crosley_Eng_Tree.html Hope this helps, feel free to ask more questions as you think of them. Jim...
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I took everybody's advice and joined the club. Today was spent cleaning out the whole car and removing the steering column and some bolts holding the body. I' going to order some manuals to assist me as was suggested. Hopefully, Monday I will start calling the suppliers to get some parts. Other than mechanical repairs on my cars and minor body work, I have never tried something like this before. I'm gonna give it a shot!
My engine number is: R209900. Some other things I found were that the car seems to have been blue originally. Also, someone cut holes in the back and added 2 tail lights. I also found an extra dash in the car that seems to belong to a different model and an old radio that has vacuum tubes but doesn't look like the correct one for the car. I have added pics for anyone interested. Raymond
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Butch
Raymond,
That is the CASTING number, on the cast iron block, the engine number is stamped on the aluminum portion (the crankcase). Butch On 4/2/2020 7:50 PM, Raymond via
groups.io wrote:
I took everybody's advice and joined the club. Today was spent cleaning out the whole car and removing the steering column and some bolts holding the body. I' going to order some manuals to assist me as was suggested. Hopefully, Monday I will start calling the suppliers to get some parts. Other than mechanical repairs on my cars and minor body work, I have never tried something like this before. I'm gonna give it a shot!
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Butch
Raymond, correct, that dashboard is NOT for any Crosley. A photo of
the radio would help identify it.
Butch On 4/2/2020 7:50 PM, Raymond via
groups.io wrote:
I took everybody's advice and joined the club. Today was spent cleaning out the whole car and removing the steering column and some bolts holding the body. I' going to order some manuals to assist me as was suggested. Hopefully, Monday I will start calling the suppliers to get some parts. Other than mechanical repairs on my cars and minor body work, I have never tried something like this before. I'm gonna give it a shot!
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Service & Yankee have online stores if you want to browse before you call, there are links on the vendor page.
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R209900 is the casting number and probably 99% of all Crosley cast iron blocks have that number even though there were numerous changes over the years of production. The engine serial number is to the rear of the distributor on the side of the crankcase, that will let us roughly date the engine. Here is a link to the radios used in the Crosley http://crosleyautoclub.com/Car_Radios/Radios.html If your radio is one of these it is worth hanging on to, they bring big dollars for a nice one and more than you would thin for a poor one. Sounds like you have caught the bug. Welcome to the club. I bought the bug when I was 13, nearly 60 years ago. Jim...
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Just thought of something, since it is Thursday. A few of us get together in a club chat room for realtime discussions every Thursday and Sunday nights at 10pm EST. The discussions often get off on other topics but we are always happy to answer questions and give advice, between solving the words problems and weather discussions :-).
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Just pick a name and leave the password blank. Jim...
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I was at a loss because I couldn't find it but half a can of brake clean later, I think it's 106415. My radio doesn't look like any of those but I will post a picture tomorrow.
EDIT: I will try to make it to chat tonight. Thanks
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Looks like your engine was built around August/September 1949. Has some improvements over ones that are converted CoBra block engines.
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Spock Arnold
Raymond The "engine number" you gave is the casting number. Your engine number will be found on the crankcase by the distributor. The engine you show is a later one, not original to the car, however, depending on the number may be a replacement. The dash looks familiar, but I can't put my finger on it. If you want to sell it, it is saleable. Post a picture of the radio and we will see if we can help on it.
On Apr 2, 2020 7:50 PM, "Raymond via groups.io" <raymondjbz@...> wrote: I took everybody's advice and joined the club. Today was spent cleaning out the whole car and removing the steering column and some bolts holding the body. I' going to order some manuals to assist me as was suggested. Hopefully, Monday I will start calling the suppliers to get some parts. Other than mechanical repairs on my cars and minor body work, I have never tried something like this before. I'm gonna give it a shot!
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Raymond
I did a little work on the car today. I couldn't find the front brake drum and hardware in the buckets so Im gonna have to call around and order them Monday. The undercoating is going to be a nightmare to remove.
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nadno1
Steve, this is what I did to remove the undercoat. I made 2 saw horses that would break apart easily, took about 4 guys to flip the car and set the horses up, then just used a heat gun and putty knife, went real good Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
-------- Original message -------- From: "Raymond via groups.io" <raymondjbz@...> Date: 4/4/20 12:30 PM (GMT-06:00) To: Crosley-Gang@groups.io Subject: Re: [Crosley-Gang] What to do with my 1946 crosley?
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